[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Pages 28429-28441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2004

  On Thursday, November 6, 2003, the Senate passed H.R. 2673, as 
follows:

         Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives 
     (H.R. 2673) entitled ``An Act making appropriations for 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2004, and for other purposes.'', do pass with the following 
     amendment: Strike out all after the enacting clause and 
     insert:

     That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Agriculture, 
     Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2004, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, $10,046,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
     $11,000 of this amount shall be available for official 
     reception and representation expenses, not otherwise provided 
     for, as determined by the Secretary.

                          Executive Operations


                            chief economist

       For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, including 
     economic analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, 
     energy and new uses, and the functions of the World 
     Agricultural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $8,707,000.


                       national appeals division

       For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, 
     $13,997,000.


                 Office of Budget and Program Analysis

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
     Analysis, $7,544,000.


                        Homeland Security Staff

       For necessary expenses of the Homeland Security Staff, 
     $910,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 
     Information Officer, $15,710,000.


                      Common Computing Environment

       For necessary expenses to acquire a Common Computing 
     Environment for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
     the Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service and Rural 
     Development mission areas for information technology, 
     systems, and services, $118,789,000, to remain available 
     until expended, for the capital asset acquisition of shared 
     information technology systems, including services as 
     authorized by 7 U.S.C. 6915-16 and 40 U.S.C. 1421-28: 
     Provided, That obligation of these funds shall be consistent 
     with the Department of Agriculture Service Center 
     Modernization Plan of the county-based agencies, and shall be 
     with the concurrence of the Department's Chief Information 
     Officer.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
     Officer, $5,496,000: Provided, That the Chief Financial 
     Officer shall actively market and expand cross-servicing 
     activities of the National Finance Center.

           Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, $794,000.

                         Office of Civil Rights

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
     $15,445,000.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Administration, $673,000.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to 
     Public Law 92-313, including authorities pursuant to the 1984 
     delegation of authority from the Administrator of General 
     Services to the Department of Agriculture under 40 U.S.C. 
     486, for programs and activities of the Department which are 
     included in this Act, and for alterations and other actions 
     needed for the Department and its agencies to consolidate 
     unneeded space into configurations suitable for release to 
     the Administrator of General Services, and for the operation, 
     maintenance, improvement, and repair of Agriculture buildings 
     and facilities, and for related costs, $187,022,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary 
     of Agriculture may transfer a share of that agency's 
     appropriation made available by this Act to this 
     appropriation, or may transfer a share of this appropriation 
     to that agency's appropriation to cover the costs of new or 
     replacement space for such agency, but such transfers shall 
     not exceed 5 percent of the funds made available for space 
     rental and related costs to or from this account.

                     Hazardous Materials Management


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, to 
     comply with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
     Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) and 
     the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et 
     seq.), $15,611,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That appropriations and funds available herein to 
     the Department for Hazardous Materials Management may be 
     transferred to any agency of the Department for its use in 
     meeting all requirements pursuant to the above Acts on 
     Federal and non-Federal lands.

                      Departmental Administration


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For Departmental Administration, $23,031,000, to provide 
     for necessary expenses for management support services to 
     offices of the Department and for general administration 
     security, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous 
     supplies and expenses not otherwise provided

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     for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the 
     Department: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
     reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for 
     travel expenses incident to the holding of hearings as 
     required by 5 U.S.C. 551-558: Provided further, That of such 
     amount, sufficient funds shall be available for the Secretary 
     of Agriculture, not later than 60 days after the last day of 
     the fiscal year, to submit to Congress a report on the amount 
     of acquisitions made by the Department of Agriculture during 
     such fiscal year of articles, materials, or supplies that 
     were manufactured outside the United States. Such report 
     shall separately indicate the dollar value of any articles, 
     materials, or supplies purchased by the Department of 
     Agriculture that were manufactured outside the United States, 
     an itemized list of all waivers under the Buy American Act 
     (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) that were granted with respect to 
     such articles, materials, or supplies, and a summary of total 
     procurement funds spent on goods manufactured in the United 
     States versus funds spent on goods manufactured outside of 
     the United States. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make 
     the report publicly available by posting the report on an 
     Internet website.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out 
     the programs funded by this Act, including programs involving 
     intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the executive 
     branch, $3,825,000: Provided, That these funds may be 
     transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
     funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the agency level: 
     Provided further, That no other funds appropriated to the 
     Department by this Act shall be available to the Department 
     for support of activities of congressional relations.

                        Office of Communications

       For necessary expenses to carry out services relating to 
     the coordination of programs involving public affairs, for 
     the dissemination of agricultural information, and the 
     coordination of information, work, and programs authorized by 
     Congress in the Department, $9,228,000: Provided, That not to 
     exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers' bulletins.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
     General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector 
     General Act of 1978, $75,781,000, including such sums as may 
     be necessary for contracting and other arrangements with 
     public agencies and private persons pursuant to section 
     6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, and including 
     not to exceed $125,000 for certain confidential operational 
     expenses, including the payment of informants, to be expended 
     under the direction of the Inspector General pursuant to 
     Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97-98.

                     Office of the General Counsel

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
     Counsel, $35,343,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Economic 
     Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics 
     Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the 
     Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
     $596,000.

                       Economic Research Service

       For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
     conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by 
     the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) 
     and other laws, $69,902,000.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

       For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
     Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
     service work, including crop and livestock estimates, 
     statistical coordination and improvements, marketing surveys, 
     and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
     1621-1627 and 2204g, and other laws, $128,922,000, of which 
     up to $25,279,000 shall be available until expended for the 
     Census of Agriculture.

                     Agricultural Research Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research 
     Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration 
     relating to production, utilization, marketing, and 
     distribution (not otherwise provided for); home economics or 
     nutrition and consumer use including the acquisition, 
     preservation, and dissemination of agricultural information; 
     and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or 
     purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land 
     exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value 
     or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the grantor 
     which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total value of the 
     land or interests transferred out of Federal ownership, 
     $1,045,533,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall 
     be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft 
     and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only: 
     Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 
     available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, 
     alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but 
     unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one 
     building shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses or 
     greenhouses which shall each be limited to $1,200,000, and 
     except for 10 buildings to be constructed or improved at a 
     cost not to exceed $750,000 each, and the cost of altering 
     any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 
     percent of the current replacement value of the building or 
     $375,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the 
     limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall not 
     apply to modernization or replacement of existing facilities 
     at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That 
     appropriations hereunder shall be available for granting 
     easements at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: 
     Provided further, That the foregoing limitations shall not 
     apply to replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act 
     of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That 
     funds may be received from any State, other political 
     subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose of 
     establishing or operating any research facility or research 
     project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized 
     by law: Provided further, That all rights and title of the 
     United States in the 1.0664-acre parcel of land including 
     improvements, as recorded at Book 1320, Page 253, records of 
     Larimer County, State of Colorado, shall be conveyed to the 
     Board of Governors of the Colorado State University for the 
     benefit of Colorado State University.
       None of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
     available to carry out research related to the production, 
     processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.


                        Buildings and Facilities

       For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, 
     extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or 
     facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural 
     research programs of the Department of Agriculture, where not 
     otherwise provided, $46,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service


                   Research and Education Activities

       For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
     cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
     for other expenses, $617,575,000, as follows: to carry out 
     the provisions of the Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a-i), 
     $178,977,000; for grants for cooperative forestry research 
     (16 U.S.C. 582a through a-7), $21,742,000; for payments to 
     the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University 
     and West Virginia State College (7 U.S.C. 3222), $35,411,000, 
     of which $1,507,496 shall be made available only for the 
     purpose of ensuring that each institution shall receive no 
     less than $1,000,000; for special grants for agricultural 
     research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $101,637,000; for special grants 
     for agricultural research on improved pest control (7 U.S.C. 
     450i(c)), $14,976,000; for competitive research grants (7 
     U.S.C. 450i(b)), $180,000,000; for the support of animal 
     health and disease programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), $5,065,000; for 
     supplemental and alternative crops and products (7 U.S.C. 
     3319d), $840,000; for grants for research pursuant to the 
     Critical Agricultural Materials Act (7 U.S.C. 178 et seq.), 
     $1,242,000, to remain available until expended; for research 
     grants for 1994 institutions pursuant to section 536 of 
     Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $1,093,000, to remain 
     available until expended; for higher education graduate 
     fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), $3,222,000, to 
     remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher 
     education challenge grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,888,000; 
     for a higher education multicultural scholars program (7 
     U.S.C. 3152(b)(5)), $992,000, to remain available until 
     expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for an education grants program 
     for Hispanic-serving Institutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), 
     $4,073,000; for noncompetitive grants for the purpose of 
     carrying out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242 (section 759 of 
     Public Law 106-78) to individual eligible institutions or 
     consortia of eligible institutions in Alaska and in Hawaii, 
     with funds awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska 
     and Hawaii, $3,500,000; for a secondary agriculture education 
     program and 2-year post-secondary education (7 U.S.C. 
     3152(j)), $994,000; for aquaculture grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), 
     $4,471,000; for sustainable agriculture research and 
     education (7 U.S.C. 5811), $13,661,000; for a program of 
     capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(4)) to colleges 
     eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 
     U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee University and 
     West Virginia State College, $11,404,000, to remain available 
     until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for payments to the 1994 
     Institutions pursuant to section 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-
     382, $1,689,000; and for necessary expenses of Research and 
     Education Activities, $26,698,000.
       None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
     available to carry out research related to the production, 
     processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products: 
     Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to research on 
     the medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial uses of 
     tobacco.


              Native American Institutions Endowment Fund

       For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund 
     authorized by Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), 
     $9,000,000.


                          Extension Activities

       For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
     Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern 
     Marianas, and American Samoa, $450,084,000, as follows: 
     payments for cooperative extension work under the Smith-Lever 
     Act, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of said 
     Act, and under section 208(c) of

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     Public Law 93-471, for retirement and employees' compensation 
     costs for extension agents and for costs of penalty mail for 
     cooperative extension agents and State extension directors, 
     $279,390,000; payments for extension work at the 1994 
     Institutions under the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), 
     $3,273,000; payments for the nutrition and family education 
     program for low-income areas under section 3(d) of the Act, 
     $58,185,000; payments for the pest management program under 
     section 3(d) of the Act, $10,689,000; payments for the farm 
     safety program under section 3(d) of the Act, $5,489,000; 
     payments to upgrade research, extension, and teaching 
     facilities at the 1890 land-grant colleges, including 
     Tuskegee University and West Virginia State College, as 
     authorized by section 1447 of Public Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 
     3222b), $14,903,000, to remain available until expended; 
     payments for youth-at-risk programs under section 3(d) of the 
     Smith-Lever Act, $8,426,000; for youth farm safety education 
     and certification extension grants, to be awarded 
     competitively under section 3(d) of the Act, $496,000; 
     payments for carrying out the provisions of the Renewable 
     Resources Extension Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.), 
     $4,516,000; payments for Indian reservation agents under 
     section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act, $1,983,000; payments for 
     sustainable agriculture programs under section 3(d) of the 
     Act, $4,843,000; payments for rural health and safety 
     education as authorized by section 502(i) of Public Law 92-
     419 (7 U.S.C. 2662(i)), $2,605,000; payments for cooperative 
     extension work by the colleges receiving the benefits of the 
     second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328) and Tuskegee 
     University and West Virginia State College, $31,908,000, of 
     which $1,724,884 shall be made available only for the purpose 
     of ensuring that each institution shall receive no less than 
     $1,000,000; for grants to youth organizations pursuant to 
     section 7630 of title 7, United States Code, $2,981,000; and 
     for necessary expenses of extension activities, $20,397,000.


                         Integrated Activities

       For the integrated research, education, and extension 
     competitive grants programs, including necessary 
     administrative expenses, as authorized under section 406 of 
     the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform 
     Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626), $46,711,000, as follows: 
     payments for the water quality program, $12,887,000; payments 
     for the food safety program, $14,870,000; payments for the 
     regional pest management centers program, $4,502,000; 
     payments for the Food Quality Protection Act risk mitigation 
     program for major food crop systems, $4,857,000; payments for 
     the crops affected by Food Quality Protection Act 
     implementation, $1,487,000; payments for the methyl bromide 
     transition program, $3,500,000; payments for the organic 
     transition program, $2,111,000; payments for the 
     international science and education grants program under 7 
     U.S.C. 3291, to remain available until expended, $497,000; 
     payments for the critical issues program under 7 U.S.C. 
     450i(c): Provided, That of the funds made available under 
     this heading, $497,000 shall be for payments for the critical 
     issues program under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c) and $1,503,000 shall be 
     for payments for the regional rural development centers 
     program under 7 U.S.C. 450i(c).


              Outreach for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers

       For grants and contracts pursuant to section 2501 of the 
     Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 2279), $3,470,000, to remain available until expended.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs to 
     administer programs under the laws enacted by the Congress 
     for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the 
     Agricultural Marketing Service; and the Grain Inspection, 
     Packers and Stockyards Administration; $736,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to 
     prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant and animal 
     diseases; to carry out inspection, quarantine, and regulatory 
     activities; and to protect the environment, as authorized by 
     law, $705,552,000, of which $4,112,000 shall be available for 
     the control of outbreaks of insects, plant diseases, animal 
     diseases and for control of pest animals and birds to the 
     extent necessary to meet emergency conditions; of which 
     $51,720,000 shall be used for the boll weevil eradication 
     program for cost share purposes or for debt retirement for 
     active eradication zones; and of which not less than 
     $1,500,000 (in addition to any other funds made available for 
     eradication or containment) shall be used by the Emerald Ash 
     Borer Task Force for the removal of trees that have been 
     adversely affected by the emerald ash borer, with a priority 
     for the removal of trees on public property or that threaten 
     public safety; and of which up to $275,000 may be used to 
     control or alleviate the cormorant problem in the State of 
     Michigan: Provided, That no funds shall be used to formulate 
     or administer a brucellosis eradication program for the 
     current fiscal year that does not require minimum matching by 
     the States of at least 40 percent: Provided further, That 
     this appropriation shall be available for the operation and 
     maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed 
     four, of which two shall be for replacement only: Provided 
     further, That, in addition, in emergencies which threaten any 
     segment of the agricultural production industry of this 
     country, the Secretary may transfer from other appropriations 
     or funds available to the agencies or corporations of the 
     Department such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be 
     available only in such emergencies for the arrest and 
     eradication of contagious or infectious disease or pests of 
     animals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance 
     with sections 10411 and 10417 of the Animal Health Protection 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 8310 and 8316) and sections 431 and 442 of the 
     Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 7772), and any 
     unexpended balances of funds transferred for such emergency 
     purposes in the preceding fiscal year shall be merged with 
     such transferred amounts: Provided further, That 
     appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to law 
     (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of leased 
     buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the 
     cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
     shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value 
     of the building.
       In fiscal year 2004, the agency is authorized to collect 
     fees to cover the total costs of providing technical 
     assistance, goods, or services requested by States, other 
     political subdivisions, domestic and international 
     organizations, foreign governments, or individuals, provided 
     that such fees are structured such that any entity's 
     liability for such fees is reasonably based on the technical 
     assistance, goods, or services provided to the entity by the 
     agency, and such fees shall be credited to this account, to 
     remain available until expended, without further 
     appropriation, for providing such assistance, goods, or 
     services.


                        Buildings and Facilities

       For plans, construction, repair, preventive maintenance, 
     environmental support, improvement, extension, alteration, 
     and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized 
     by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as authorized by 7 
     U.S.C. 428a, $4,996,000, to remain available until expended.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           Marketing Services

        For necessary expenses to carry out services related to 
     consumer protection, agricultural marketing and distribution, 
     transportation, and regulatory programs, as authorized by 
     law, and for administration and coordination of payments to 
     States, $75,263,000, including funds for the wholesale market 
     development program for the design and development of 
     wholesale and farmer market facilities for the major 
     metropolitan areas of the country: Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
     2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and 
     improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
     during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
     current replacement value of the building: Provided further, 
     That, in the case of the term of protection for the variety 
     for which certificate number 8200179 was issued, on the date 
     of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     issue a new certificate for a term of protection of 10 years 
     for the variety, except that the Secretary may terminate the 
     certificate (at the end of any calendar year that is more 
     than 5 years after the date of issuance of the certificate) 
     if the Secretary determines that a new variety of seed (that 
     is substantially based on the genetics of the variety for 
     which the certificate was issued) is commercially viable and 
     available in sufficient quantities to meet market demands.
       Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 
     activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 
     U.S.C. 9701).


                 limitation on administrative expenses

       Not to exceed $62,577,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
     obligated during the current fiscal year for administrative 
     expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated and/or 
     other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may exceed this 
     limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


    Funds for Strengthening Markets, Income, and Supply (Section 32)

                     (including transfers of funds)

       Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
     1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for commodity 
     program expenses as authorized therein, and other related 
     operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the 
     Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife 
     Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise provided in 
     this Act; and (3) not more than $15,392,000 for formulation 
     and administration of marketing agreements and orders 
     pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 
     and the Agricultural Act of 1961.


                   Payments to States and Possessions

       For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and 
     departments of markets, and similar agencies for marketing 
     activities under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing 
     Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $3,338,000, of which not less 
     than $2,000,000 shall be used to make noncompetitive grants 
     under this heading.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     United States Grain Standards Act, for the administration of 
     the Packers and Stockyards Act, for certifying procedures 
     used to protect purchasers of farm products, and the 
     standardization activities related to grain under the 
     Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, $35,638,000: Provided, 
     That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 
     U.S.C. 2250) for the

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     alteration and repair of buildings and improvements, but the 
     cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
     shall not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value 
     of the building.


        Limitation on Inspection and Weighing Services Expenses

       Not to exceed $42,463,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
     obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection and 
     weighing services: Provided, That if grain export activities 
     require additional supervision and oversight, or other 
     uncontrollable factors occur, this limitation may be exceeded 
     by up to 10 percent with notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Food Safety to administer the laws 
     enacted by the Congress for the Food Safety and Inspection 
     Service, $611,000.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

       For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized by 
     the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products 
     Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 
     including not to exceed $50,000 for representation allowances 
     and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved 
     August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $783,761,000, of which no 
     less than $701,103,000 shall be available for Federal food 
     safety inspection; and in addition, $1,000,000 may be 
     credited to this account from fees collected for the cost of 
     laboratory accreditation as authorized by section 1327 of the 
     Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That no fewer than 50 full time 
     equivalent positions above the fiscal year 2002 level shall 
     be employed during fiscal year 2004 for purposes dedicated 
     solely to inspections and enforcement related to the Humane 
     Methods of Slaughter Act: Provided further, That this 
     appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
     2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and 
     improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
     during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
     current replacement value of the building.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services to 
     administer the laws enacted by Congress for the Farm Service 
     Agency, the Foreign Agricultural Service, the Risk Management 
     Agency, and the Commodity Credit Corporation, $635,000.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration 
     and implementation of programs administered by the Farm 
     Service Agency, $988,768,000: Provided, That the Secretary is 
     authorized to use the services, facilities, and authorities 
     (but not the funds) of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
     make program payments for all programs administered by the 
     Agency: Provided further, That other funds made available to 
     the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to and 
     merged with this account.


                         State Mediation Grants

       For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricultural 
     Credit Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101-5106), 
     $3,974,000.


                        Dairy Indemnity Program

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 
     payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products 
     under a dairy indemnity program, $100,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That such program is 
     carried out by the Secretary in the same manner as the dairy 
     indemnity program described in Public Law 106-387 (114 Stat. 
     1549A-12).


           Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
     and guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et seq.) and 
     operating (7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, Indian tribe land 
     acquisition loans (25 U.S.C. 488), and boll weevil loans (7 
     U.S.C. 1989), to be available from funds in the Agricultural 
     Credit Insurance Fund, as follows: farm ownership loans, 
     $1,079,158,000, of which $950,000,000 shall be for guaranteed 
     loans and $129,158,000 shall be for direct loans; operating 
     loans, $2,067,317,000, of which $1,200,000,000 shall be for 
     unsubsidized guaranteed loans, $266,249,000 shall be for 
     subsidized guaranteed loans and $601,068,000 shall be for 
     direct loans; Indian tribe land acquisition loans, 
     $2,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication program loans, 
     $100,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary shall deem the 
     pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of boll 
     weevil eradication program loans.
       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
     cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: farm ownership 
     loans, $33,648,000, of which $5,130,000 shall be for 
     guaranteed loans, and $28,518,000 shall be for direct loans; 
     operating loans, $160,634,000, of which $39,960,000 shall be 
     for unsubsidized guaranteed loans, $34,000,000 shall be for 
     subsidized guaranteed loans, and $86,674,000 shall be for 
     direct loans.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $290,968,000, of 
     which $283,020,000 shall be transferred to and merged with 
     the appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
     Expenses''.
       Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural Credit 
     Insurance Program Account for farm ownership and operating 
     direct loans and guaranteed loans may be transferred among 
     these programs: Provided, That the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified at 
     least 15 days in advance of any transfer.

                         Risk Management Agency

       For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by 
     section 226A of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization 
     Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6933), $71,422,000: Provided, That not 
     to exceed $1,000 shall be available for official reception 
     and representation expenses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
     1506(i).

                              Corporations

       The following corporations and agencies are hereby 
     authorized to make expenditures, within the limits of funds 
     and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or 
     agency and in accord with law, and to make contracts and 
     commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
     forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such 
     corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

       For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Federal 
     Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums as may be 
     necessary, to remain available until expended.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


                 reimbursement for net realized losses

       For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary 
     to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net 
     realized losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, 
     pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 
     U.S.C. 713a-11).


                       hazardous waste management

                        (limitation on expenses)

       For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation shall not expend more than $5,000,000 for site 
     investigation and cleanup expenses, and operations and 
     maintenance expenses to comply with the requirement of 
     section 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
     Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9607(g)), and 
     section 6001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 6961).

                                TITLE II

                         CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Forest 
     Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
     $761,000.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


                        Conservation Operations

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of 
     the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), including 
     preparation of conservation plans and establishment of 
     measures to conserve soil and water (including farm 
     irrigation and land drainage and such special measures for 
     soil and water management as may be necessary to prevent 
     floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control 
     agricultural related pollutants); operation of conservation 
     plant materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; 
     dissemination of information; acquisition of lands, water, 
     and interests therein for use in the plant materials program 
     by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to 
     exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
     428a); purchase and erection or alteration or improvement of 
     permanent and temporary buildings; and operation and 
     maintenance of aircraft, $826,635,000, to remain available 
     until expended, of which not less than $9,500,000 is for snow 
     survey and water forecasting, and not less than $11,269,000 
     is for operation and establishment of the plant materials 
     centers, and of which not less than $23,500,000 shall be for 
     the grazing lands conservation initiative: Provided, That 
     appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 
     U.S.C. 2250 for construction and improvement of buildings and 
     public improvements at plant materials centers, except that 
     the cost of alterations and improvements to other buildings 
     and other public improvements shall not exceed $250,000: 
     Provided further, That when buildings or other structures are 
     erected on non-Federal land, that the right to use such land 
     is obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, 
     That this appropriation shall be available for technical 
     assistance and related expenses to carry out programs 
     authorized by section 202(c) of title II of the Colorado 
     River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1974 (43 U.S.C. 1592(c)): 
     Provided further, That qualified local engineers may be 
     temporarily employed at per diem rates to perform the 
     technical planning work of the Service: Provided further, 
     That none of the funds made available under this paragraph by 
     this or any other appropriations Act may be used to provide 
     technical assistance with respect to programs listed in 
     section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3841(a)).

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                     Watershed Surveys and Planning

       For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, 
     and surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, and 
     for small watershed investigations and planning, in 
     accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention 
     Act (16 U.S.C. 1001-1009), $10,000,000: Provided, That 
     qualified local engineers may be temporarily employed at per 
     diem rates to perform the technical planning work of the 
     Service: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available under this paragraph by this or any other 
     appropriations Act may be used to provide technical 
     assistance with respect to programs listed in section 1241(a) 
     of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)).


               Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

       For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures, 
     including but not limited to research, engineering 
     operations, methods of cultivation, the growing of 
     vegetation, rehabilitation of existing works and changes in 
     use of land, in accordance with the Watershed Protection and 
     Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001-1005 and 1007-1009), the 
     provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), 
     and in accordance with the provisions of laws relating to the 
     activities of the Department, $55,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended (of which up to $5,000,000 may be 
     available for the watersheds authorized under the Flood 
     Control Act (33 U.S.C. 701 and 16 U.S.C. 1006a)): Provided, 
     That not to exceed $20,000,000 of this appropriation shall be 
     available for technical assistance: Provided further, That 
     not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation is available 
     to carry out the purposes of the Endangered Species Act of 
     1973 (Public Law 93-205), including cooperative efforts as 
     contemplated by that Act to relocate endangered or threatened 
     species to other suitable habitats as may be necessary to 
     expedite project construction: Provided further, That 
     qualified local engineers may be temporarily employed at per 
     diem rates to perform the technical planning work of the 
     Service: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available under this paragraph by this or any other 
     appropriations Act may be used to provide technical 
     assistance with respect to programs listed in section 1241(a) 
     of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)).


                    Watershed Rehabilitation Program

       For necessary expenses to carry out rehabilitation of 
     structural measures, in accordance with section 14 of the 
     Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 
     1012), and in accordance with the provisions of laws relating 
     to the activities of the Department, $29,805,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That qualified local 
     engineers may be temporarily employed at per diem rates to 
     perform the technical planning work of the Service: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds made available under this 
     paragraph by this or any other appropriations Act may be used 
     to provide technical assistance with respect to programs 
     listed in section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)).


                 Resource Conservation and Development

       For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out 
     projects for resource conservation and development and for 
     sound land use pursuant to the provisions of sections 31 and 
     32 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010-1011; 
     76 Stat. 607); the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f); 
     and subtitle H of title XV of the Agriculture and Food Act of 
     1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451-3461), $51,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended.

                               TITLE III

                       RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Rural Development to administer programs 
     under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Rural Housing 
     Service, the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the 
     Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture, 
     $651,000.


                  Rural Community Advancement Program

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants, 
     as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926, 1926a, 1926c, 1926d, and 
     1932, except for sections 381E-H and 381N of the Consolidated 
     Farm and Rural Development Act, $767,479,000, to remain 
     available until expended, of which $79,838,000 shall be for 
     rural community programs described in section 381E(d)(1) of 
     such Act; of which $610,641,000 shall be for the rural 
     utilities programs described in sections 381E(d)(2), 
     306C(a)(2), and 306D of such Act; and of which $79,000,000 
     shall be for the rural business and cooperative development 
     programs described in sections 381E(d)(3) and 310B(f) of such 
     Act: Provided, That of the amount appropriated for rural 
     business and cooperative development programs, $100,000 shall 
     be for a pilot program in the State of Alaska to assist 
     communities with community planning: Provided further, That 
     of the total amount appropriated in this account, $24,000,000 
     shall be for loans and grants to benefit Federally Recognized 
     Native American Tribes, including grants for drinking water 
     and waste disposal systems pursuant to section 306C of such 
     Act, of which $4,000,000 shall be available for community 
     facilities grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by 
     section 306(a)(19) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act, and of which $250,000 shall be available for 
     a grant to a qualified national organization to provide 
     technical assistance for rural transportation in order to 
     promote economic development: Provided further, That of the 
     amount appropriated for rural community programs, $6,000,000 
     shall be available for a Rural Community Development 
     Initiative: Provided further, That such funds shall be used 
     solely to develop the capacity and ability of private, 
     nonprofit community-based housing and community development 
     organizations, low-income rural communities, and Federally 
     Recognized Native American Tribes to undertake projects to 
     improve housing, community facilities, community and economic 
     development projects in rural areas: Provided further, That 
     such funds shall be made available to qualified private, 
     nonprofit and public intermediary organizations proposing to 
     carry out a program of financial and technical assistance: 
     Provided further, That such intermediary organizations shall 
     provide matching funds from other sources, including Federal 
     funds for related activities, in an amount not less than 
     funds provided: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated for the rural business and cooperative 
     development programs, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made 
     available for a grant to a qualified national organization to 
     provide technical assistance for rural transportation in 
     order to promote economic development; $2,000,000 shall be 
     for grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
     seq.); and not less than $5,000,000 shall be available for 
     grants in accordance with section 310B(f) of the Consolidated 
     Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That of the 
     amount appropriated for rural utilities programs, not to 
     exceed $25,000,000 shall be for water and waste disposal 
     systems to benefit the Colonias along the United States/
     Mexico border, including grants pursuant to section 306C of 
     such Act; not to exceed $30,000,000 shall be for water and 
     waste disposal systems for rural and native villages in 
     Alaska pursuant to section 306D of such Act, with up to 1 
     percent available to administer the program and up to 1 
     percent available to improve interagency coordination may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Rural 
     Development, Salaries and Expenses'', of which 25 percent 
     shall be provided for water and sewer projects in regional 
     hubs and $100,000 shall be provided to develop a regional 
     system for centralized billing, operation, and management of 
     rural water and sewer utilities through regional 
     cooperatives, and the State of Alaska shall provide a 25 
     percent cost share; not to exceed $18,000,000 shall be for 
     technical assistance grants for rural water and waste systems 
     pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such Act, of which 
     $5,513,000 shall be for Rural Community Assistance Programs; 
     and not to exceed $13,000,000 shall be for contracting with 
     qualified national organizations for a circuit rider program 
     to provide technical assistance for rural water systems: 
     Provided further, That of the amount appropriated for the 
     circuit rider program, Alaska shall receive no less than five 
     percent and not less than $750,000 shall be for contracting 
     with qualified national organizations to establish a Native 
     American circuit rider program to provide technical 
     assistance for rural water systems: Provided further, That 
     not less than $2,000,000 shall be available to carry out 
     Section 6012 of Public Law 107-171: Provided further, That of 
     the total amount appropriated, not to exceed $22,132,000 
     shall be available through June 30, 2004, for authorized 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
     designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic 
     Area Partnership Zones; of which $1,000,000 shall be for the 
     rural community programs described in section 381E(d)(1) of 
     such Act, of which $12,582,000 shall be for the rural 
     utilities programs described in section 381E(d)(2) of such 
     Act, and of which $8,550,000 shall be for the rural business 
     and cooperative development programs described in section 
     381E(d)(3) of such Act: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated for rural community programs, not to exceed 
     $23,000,000 shall be to provide grants for facilities in 
     rural communities with extreme unemployment and severe 
     economic depression (Public Law 106-387), with 5 percent for 
     administration and capacity building in the State rural 
     development offices: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated, $30,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged 
     with the ``Rural Utilities Service, High Energy Cost Grants 
     Account'' to provide grants authorized under section 19 of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a): 
     Provided further, That of the amount made available for high 
     energy cost grants, up to $3,000,000 shall be available to a 
     not-for-profit consumer-owned cooperative utility provider 
     serving an island community in a non-contiguous State for the 
     purpose of defraying transaction, transition, organizational, 
     and other fair and reasonable costs, as determined by the 
     Secretary, incurred during the period July 1, 1999 through 
     December 31, 2002, and directly related to the successful 
     acquisition by such provider of the investor-owned electric 
     utility facilities (including generation, transmission, 
     distribution, and other related assets) formerly serving 
     ratepayers on the island: Provided further, That any prior 
     year balances for high cost energy grants authorized by 
     section 19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 
     901(19)) shall be transferred to and merged with the ``Rural 
     Utilities Service, High Energy Costs Grants'' account.

                Rural Development Salaries and Expenses


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration 
     and implementation of programs

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     in the Rural Development mission area, including activities 
     with institutions concerning the development and operation of 
     agricultural cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements; 
     $140,922,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, funds appropriated under this section may 
     be used for advertising and promotional campaigns, including 
     souvenirs, that support activities conducted by agencies of 
     the Rural Development mission area: Provided further, That 
     not more than $10,000 may be expended to provide modest 
     nonmonetary awards to non-USDA employees: Provided further, 
     That any balances available from prior years for the Rural 
     Utilities Service, Rural Housing Service, and the Rural 
     Business-Cooperative Service salaries and expenses accounts 
     shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation.

                         Rural Housing Service


              Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
     and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the Housing 
     Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the rural housing 
     insurance fund, as follows: $4,084,589,000 for loans to 
     section 502 borrowers, as determined by the Secretary, of 
     which $1,359,417,000 shall be for direct loans, and of which 
     $2,725,172,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; 
     $35,004,000 for section 504 housing repair loans; 
     $115,052,000 for section 515 rental housing; $100,000,000 for 
     section 538 guaranteed multi-family housing loans; $5,045,000 
     for section 524 site loans; $11,500,000 for credit sales of 
     acquired property, of which up to $1,500,000 may be for 
     multi-family credit sales; and $1,623,000 for section 523 
     self-help housing land development loans.
       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
     cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 502 
     loans, $165,921,000, of which $126,018,000 shall be for 
     direct loans, and of which $39,903,000, to remain available 
     until expended, shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; 
     section 504 housing repair loans, $9,612,000; section 515 
     rental housing, $49,484,000; section 538 multi-family housing 
     guaranteed loans, $5,950,000; multi-family credit sales of 
     acquired property, $663,000; and section 523 self-help 
     housing land development loans, $50,000: Provided, That of 
     the total amount appropriated in this paragraph, $7,100,000 
     shall be available through June 30, 2004, for authorized 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
     designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic 
     Area Partnership Zones.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $439,453,000, 
     which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Rural Development, Salaries and 
     Expenses''.


                       Rental Assistance Program

       For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed 
     pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) or 
     agreements entered into in lieu of debt forgiveness or 
     payments for eligible households as authorized by section 
     502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act of 1949, $721,281,000; and, 
     in addition, such sums as may be necessary, as authorized by 
     section 521(c) of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior 
     to fiscal year 1992 to carry out the rental assistance 
     program under section 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That of 
     this amount, not more than $5,900,000 shall be available for 
     debt forgiveness or payments for eligible households as 
     authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Act, and not to 
     exceed $20,000 per project for advances to nonprofit 
     organizations or public agencies to cover direct costs (other 
     than purchase price) incurred in purchasing projects pursuant 
     to section 502(c)(5)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That 
     agreements entered into or renewed during the current fiscal 
     year shall be funded for a 5-year period, although the life 
     of any such agreement may be extended to fully utilize 
     amounts obligated.


                  Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants

       For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) 
     of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $34,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total 
     amount appropriated, $1,000,000 shall be available through 
     June 30, 2004, for authorized empowerment zones and 
     enterprise communities and communities designated by the 
     Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership 
     Zones.


                    Rural Housing Assistance Grants

       For grants and contracts for very low-income housing 
     repair, supervisory and technical assistance, compensation 
     for construction defects, and rural housing preservation made 
     by the Rural Housing Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
     1474, 1479(c), 1490e, and 1490m, $46,222,000, to remain 
     available until expended, of which $5,000,000 shall be 
     available for a processing and/or fishery workers housing 
     demonstration project in Alaska, Mississippi, Utah, and 
     Wisconsin: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, 
     $1,800,000 shall be available through June 30, 2004, for 
     authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and 
     communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as 
     Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.


                       Farm Labor Program Account

       For the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts, as 
     authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, $33,015,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for direct farm labor housing loans 
     and domestic farm labor housing grants and contracts.


                   Historic Barn Preservation Program

       For the historic barn preservation program established 
     under section 379A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008o), $2,000,000.

                  Rural Business--Cooperative Service


              Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

        For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized by 
     the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), 
     $40,000,000.
       For the cost of direct loans, $17,308,000, as authorized by 
     the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), of which 
     $1,724,000 shall be available through June 30, 2004, for 
     Federally Recognized Native American Tribes and of which 
     $3,449,000 shall be available through June 30, 2004, for 
     Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.): Provided, 
     That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
     shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That of the total 
     amount appropriated, $2,447,000 shall be available through 
     June 30, 2004, for the cost of direct loans for authorized 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
     designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic 
     Area Partnership Zones.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     direct loan programs, $4,283,000 shall be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for ``Rural Development, 
     Salaries and Expenses''.


            Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account

                    (including rescission of funds)

       For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
     under section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act, for the 
     purpose of promoting rural economic development and job 
     creation projects, $15,002,000.
       For the cost of direct loans, including the cost of 
     modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $2,792,000.
       Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of credit 
     payments in the current fiscal year, as authorized by section 
     313 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $3,000,000 
     shall not be obligated and $3,000,000 are rescinded.


                  Rural Cooperative Development Grants

       For rural cooperative development grants authorized under 
     section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $8,967,000, of which 
     $2,500,000 shall be for cooperative agreements for the 
     appropriate technology transfer for rural areas program: 
     Provided, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of the total amount 
     appropriated shall be made available to cooperatives or 
     associations of cooperatives whose primary focus is to 
     provide assistance to small, minority producers and whose 
     governing board and/or membership is comprised of at least 75 
     percent minority.


       RURAL EMPOWERMENT ZONES AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES GRANTS

       For grants in connection with second and third rounds of 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities, $14,370,000, to 
     remain available until expended, for designated rural 
     empowerment zones and rural enterprise communities, as 
     authorized by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the Omnibus 
     Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
     1999 (Public Law 105-277): Provided, That of the funds 
     appropriated, $1,000,000 shall be made available to third 
     round empowerment zones, as authorized by the Community 
     Renewal Tax Relief Act (Public Law 106-554).


                        RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAM

       For the cost of a program of direct loans and grants, under 
     the same terms and conditions as authorized by section 9006 
     of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
     U.S.C. 8106), $23,000,000 for direct renewable energy loans 
     and grants: Provided, That the cost of direct loans and loan 
     guarantees, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall 
     be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
     of 1974.

                        Rural Utilities Service


   Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be 
     made as follows: 5 percent rural electrification loans, 
     $240,000,000; municipal rate rural electric loans, 
     $1,000,000,000; loans made pursuant to section 306 of that 
     Act, rural electric, $2,000,000,000; Treasury rate direct 
     electric loans, $750,000,000; 5 percent rural 
     telecommunications loans, $145,000,000; cost of money rural 
     telecommunications loans, $250,000,000; loans made pursuant 
     to section 306 of that Act, rural telecommunications loans, 
     $120,000,000; and for guaranteed underwriting loans pursuant 
     to section 313A, $1,000,000,000.
       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the cost of 
     modifying loans, of direct and guaranteed loans authorized by 
     sections 305 and 306 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
     (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936), as follows: cost of rural electric 
     loans, $60,000, and the cost of telecommunication loans, 
     $125,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, borrower interest 
     rates may exceed 7 percent per year.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed

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     loan programs, $37,920,000 which shall be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for ``Rural Development, 
     Salaries and Expenses''.


                  Rural Telephone Bank Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby authorized to make such 
     expenditures, within the limits of funds available to such 
     corporation in accord with law, and to make such contracts 
     and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act, as may be necessary in carrying out its authorized 
     programs. During fiscal year 2004 and within the resources 
     and authority available, gross obligations for the principal 
     amount of direct loans shall be $173,503,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses, including audits, 
     necessary to carry out the loan programs, $3,182,000, which 
     shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.


         Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program

       For the principal amount of direct distance learning and 
     telemedicine loans, $300,000,000; and for the principal 
     amount of broadband telecommunications loans, $647,000,000.
       For grants for telemedicine and distance learning services 
     in rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., 
     $40,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That $15,000,000 shall be made available to convert analog to 
     digital operation those noncommercial educational television 
     broadcast stations that serve rural areas and are qualified 
     for Community Service Grants by the Corporation for Public 
     Broadcasting under section 396(k) of the Communications Act 
     of 1934, including associated translators, repeaters, and 
     studio-to-transmitter links.
       For the cost of direct and guaranteed broadband loans, as 
     authorized by 7 U.S.C. 901, et seq., $15,116,000: Provided, 
     That the cost of direct loans shall be as defined in section 
     502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       In addition, $10,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended, for a grant program to finance broadband 
     transmission in rural areas eligible for Distance Learning 
     and Telemedicne Program benefits authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
     950aaa.

                                TITLE IV

                         DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Food and 
     Nutrition Service, $611,000.

                       Food and Nutrition Service


                        Child Nutrition Programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the National School 
     Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), except section 21, and 
     the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), 
     except sections 17 and 21; $11,418,441,000, to remain 
     available through September 30, 2005, of which $6,718,780,000 
     is hereby appropriated and $4,699,661,000 shall be derived by 
     transfer from funds available under section 32 of the Act of 
     August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): Provided, That none of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be used for 
     studies and evaluations: Provided further, That up to 
     $5,235,000 shall be available for independent verification of 
     school food service claims.


Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children 
                                 (WIC)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the special 
     supplemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
     the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
     $4,639,232,000, to remain available through September 30, 
     2005, of which $10,000,000 shall be for a breastfeeding 
     support initiative in addition to the activities specified in 
     section 17(h)(3)(A) and $30,000,000 shall be for a management 
     information system initiative: Provided, That of the total 
     amount available, the Secretary shall obligate $25,000,000 
     for the farmers' market nutrition program: Provided further, 
     That notwithstanding section 17(h)(10)(A) of such Act, 
     $14,000,000 shall be available for the purposes specified in 
     section 17(h)(10)(B): Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     section 17(g)(5) of such Act, $5,000,000 shall be available 
     for pilot projects to prevent childhood obesity: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be 
     available to pay administrative expenses of WIC clinics 
     except those that have an announced policy of prohibiting 
     smoking within the space used to carry out the program: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this 
     account shall be available for the purchase of infant formula 
     except in accordance with the cost containment and 
     competitive bidding requirements specified in section 17 of 
     such Act: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
     shall be available for activities that are not fully 
     reimbursed by other Federal Government departments or 
     agencies unless authorized by section 17 of such Act.


                           Food Stamp Program

       For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 
     U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $29,945,981,000, of which 
     $2,000,000,000 shall be placed in reserve for use only in 
     such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to 
     carry out program operations: Provided, That none of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be used for 
     studies and evaluations: Provided further, That of the funds 
     made available under this heading and not already 
     appropriated to the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
     Reservations (FDPIR) established under section 4(b) of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)), not to exceed 
     $4,000,000 shall be used to purchase bison meat for the FDPIR 
     from Native American bison producers as well as from 
     producer-owned cooperatives of bison ranchers: Provided 
     further, That funds provided herein shall be expended in 
     accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: Provided 
     further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any work 
     registration or workfare requirements as may be required by 
     law: Provided further, That funds made available for 
     Employment and Training under this heading shall remain 
     available until expended, as authorized by section 16(h)(1) 
     of the Food Stamp Act.


                      Commodity Assistance Program

       For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assistance and 
     the commodity supplemental food program as authorized by 
     section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act 
     of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note); the Emergency Food Assistance 
     Act of 1983; and special assistance (in a form determined by 
     the Secretary of Agriculture) for the nuclear affected 
     islands, as authorized by section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of 
     Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(h)(2)) (or a 
     successor law), $145,740,000, to remain available through 
     September 30, 2005: Provided, That none of these funds shall 
     be available to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     for commodities donated to the program.


                   nutrition programs administration

       For necessary administrative expenses of the domestic 
     nutrition assistance programs funded under this Act, 
     $138,304,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be available only for 
     simplifying procedures, reducing overhead costs, tightening 
     regulations, improving food stamp benefit delivery, and 
     assisting in the prevention, identification, and prosecution 
     of fraud and other violations of law; and of which not less 
     than $4,000,000 shall be available to improve integrity in 
     the Food Stamp and Child Nutrition programs.

                                TITLE V

                FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service


                         Salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
     including carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 
     1954 (7 U.S.C. 1761-1769), market development activities 
     abroad, and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and 
     integrate activities of the Department in connection with 
     foreign agricultural work, including not to exceed $158,000 
     for representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to 
     section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 
     $131,648,000: Provided, That the Service may utilize advances 
     of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures 
     made on behalf of Federal agencies, public and private 
     organizations and institutions under agreements executed 
     pursuant to the agricultural food production assistance 
     programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance programs 
     of the United States Agency for International Development.


                 Public Law 480 Title I Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of agreements under the 
     Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, 
     and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, including the cost of 
     modifying credit arrangements under said Acts, $103,887,000, 
     to remain available until expended.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     credit program of title I, Public Law 83-480, and the Food 
     for Progress Act of 1985, to the extent funds appropriated 
     for Public Law 83-480 are utilized, $2,134,000, of which 
     $1,075,000 may be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries 
     and Expenses'', and of which $1,059,000 may be transferred to 
     and merged with the appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, 
     Salaries and Expenses''.


        Public Law 480 Title I Ocean Freight Differential Grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For ocean freight differential costs for the shipment of 
     agricultural commodities under title I of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and under the 
     Food for Progress Act of 1985, $28,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That funds made available 
     for the cost of agreements under title I of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and for title I 
     ocean freight differential may be used interchangeably 
     between the two accounts with prior notice to the Committees 
     on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


                     Public Law 480 Title II Grants

       For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise 
     recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including 
     interest thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development 
     and Assistance Act of 1954, for commodities supplied in 
     connection with dispositions abroad under title II of said 
     Act, $1,192,000,000, to remain available until expended.


  McGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD NUTRITION 
                             PROGRAM GRANTS

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
     2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1), $25,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended:

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     Provided, That the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized 
     to provide the services, facilities, and authorities for the 
     purpose of implementing such section, subject to 
     reimbursement from amounts provided herein.


       Commodity Credit Corporation Export Loans Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For administrative expenses to carry out the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation's export guarantee program, GSM 102 and 
     GSM 103, $4,152,000; to cover common overhead expenses as 
     permitted by section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     Charter Act and in conformity with the Federal Credit Reform 
     Act of 1990, of which $3,306,000 may be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for ``Foreign Agricultural 
     Service, Salaries and Expenses'', and of which $846,000 may 
     be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses''.

                                TITLE VI

           RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration, 
     including hire and purchase of passenger motor vehicles; for 
     payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public 
     Law 92-313 for programs and activities of the Food and Drug 
     Administration which are included in this Act; for rental of 
     special purpose space in the District of Columbia or 
     elsewhere; and for miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
     enforcement activities, authorized and approved by the 
     Secretary and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary's 
     certificate, not to exceed $25,000; $1,663,228,000, of which 
     not to exceed $249,825,000 to be derived from prescription 
     drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379h, including any 
     such fees assessed prior to the current fiscal year but 
     credited during the current year, in accordance with section 
     736(g)(4), shall be credited to this appropriation and remain 
     available until expended; and of which not to exceed 
     $29,190,000 to be derived from medical device user fees 
     authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j shall be credited to this 
     appropriation, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That fees derived from applications received during fiscal 
     year 2004 shall be subject to the fiscal year 2004 
     limitation: Provided further, That none of these funds shall 
     be used to develop, establish, or operate any program of user 
     fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: Provided further, That of 
     the total amount appropriated: (1) $412,020,000 shall be for 
     the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related 
     field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (2) 
     $475,655,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and 
     Research and related field activities in the Office of 
     Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than $13,270,000 shall 
     be available for grants and contracts awarded under section 5 
     of the Orphan Drug Act (21 U.S.C. 360ee) and of which no less 
     than $52,845,000 shall be available for the generic drugs 
     program; (3) $168,836,000 shall be for the Center for 
     Biologics Evaluation and Research and for related field 
     activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) 
     $84,646,000 shall be for the Center for Veterinary Medicine 
     and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
     Affairs; (5) $207,686,000 shall be for the Center for Devices 
     and Radiological Health and for related field activities in 
     the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) $39,887,000 shall be 
     for the National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) 
     $40,851,000 shall be for Rent and Related activities, other 
     than the amounts paid to the General Services Administration 
     for rent; (8) $119,152,000 shall be for payments to the 
     General Services Administration for rent; and (9) 
     $114,495,000 shall be for other activities, including the 
     Office of the Commissioner; the Office of Management and 
     Systems; the Office of External Relations; the Office of 
     Policy, Legislation, and Planning; and central services for 
     these offices: Provided further, That funds may be 
     transferred from one specified activity to another with the 
     prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
     Houses of Congress.
       In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
     263b may be credited to this account, to remain available 
     until expended.
       In addition, export certification user fees authorized by 
     21 U.S.C. 381 may be credited to this account, to remain 
     available until expended.


                        Buildings and Facilities

       For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, 
     alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of 
     or used by the Food and Drug Administration, where not 
     otherwise provided, $7,948,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the 
     purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and the rental 
     of space (to include multiple year leases) in the District of 
     Columbia and elsewhere, $88,435,000, including not to exceed 
     $3,000 for official reception and representation expenses.

                       Farm Credit Administration


                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

       Not to exceed $40,900,000 (from assessments collected from 
     farm credit institutions and from the Federal Agricultural 
     Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated during the current 
     fiscal year for administrative expenses as authorized under 
     12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limitation shall not 
     apply to expenses associated with receiverships.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
     appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of 
     Agriculture for the current fiscal year under this Act shall 
     be available for the purchase, in addition to those 
     specifically provided for, of not to exceed 398 passenger 
     motor vehicles, of which 396 shall be for replacement only, 
     and for the hire of such vehicles.
       Sec. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Department of 
     Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances 
     therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).
       Sec. 703. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be available 
     for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
     706(a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 
     (7 U.S.C. 2225) and 5 U.S.C. 3109.
       Sec. 704. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer 
     unobligated balances of discretionary funds appropriated by 
     this Act or other available unobligated discretionary 
     balances of the Department of Agriculture to the Working 
     Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant and capital 
     equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, 
     administrative, and information technology services of 
     primary benefit to the agencies of the Department of 
     Agriculture: Provided, That none of the funds made available 
     by this Act or any other Act shall be transferred to the 
     Working Capital Fund without the prior approval of the agency 
     administrator: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this 
     section shall be available for obligation without the prior 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
     of Congress.
       Sec. 705. New obligational authority provided for the 
     following appropriation items in this Act shall remain 
     available until expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service, the contingency fund to meet emergency conditions, 
     information technology infrastructure, fruit fly program, 
     emerging plant pests, boll weevil program, and up to 25 
     percent of the screwworm program; Food Safety and Inspection 
     Service, field automation and information management project; 
     Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
     funds for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), 
     funds for the Research, Education and Economics Information 
     System (REEIS), and funds for the Native American 
     Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service Agency, salaries 
     and expenses funds made available to county committees; 
     Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income country training 
     program and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural 
     Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offsetting 
     fluctuations in international currency exchange rates, 
     subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service.
       Sec. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations 
     available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall 
     be available to provide appropriate orientation and language 
     training pursuant to section 606C of the Act of August 28, 
     1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b).
       Sec. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to 
     pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements 
     or similar arrangements between the United States Department 
     of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 
     percent of the total direct cost of the agreement when the 
     purpose of such cooperative arrangements is to carry out 
     programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This 
     does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on 
     grants and contracts with such institutions when such 
     indirect costs are computed on a similar basis for all 
     agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act.
       Sec. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
     to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     to lease space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of 
     other agencies of the Department of Agriculture when such 
     space will be jointly occupied.
       Sec. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
     to pay indirect costs charged against competitive 
     agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards 
     issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
     Extension Service that exceed 19 percent of total Federal 
     funds provided under each award: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding section 1462 of the National Agricultural 
     Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants awarded 
     competitively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, 
     and Extension Service shall be available to pay full 
     allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under section 
     9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).
       Sec. 711. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     all loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered 
     estimates, not limitations.
       Sec. 712. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture 
     for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in 
     the current fiscal year shall remain available until expended 
     to cover obligations made in the current fiscal year for the 
     following accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund program 
     account, the Rural Telephone Bank program account, the Rural 
     Electrification and Telecommunications Loans program account, 
     the Rural Housing Insurance

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     Fund program account, and the Rural Economic Development 
     Loans program account.
       Sec. 713. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural 
     Telephone Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount 
     within the accounting records of the Rural Telephone Bank the 
     creation of which has not specifically been authorized by 
     statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury 
     or to the Federal Financing Bank any unobligated balance of 
     the Rural Telephone Bank telephone liquidating account which 
     is in excess of current requirements and such balance shall 
     receive interest as set forth for financial accounts in 
     section 505(c) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.
       Sec. 714. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more 
     than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of 
     activities related to all advisory committees, panels, 
     commissions, and task forces of the Department of 
     Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated 
     rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively 
     awarded grants.
       Sec. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection 
     Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products 
     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 471).
       Sec. 716. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
     be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by 
     this Act to any other agency or office of the Department for 
     more than 30 days unless the individual's employing agency or 
     office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
     for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period of 
     assignment.
       Sec. 717. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to 
     transmit or otherwise make available to any non-Department of 
     Agriculture employee questions or responses to questions that 
     are a result of information requested for the appropriations 
     hearing process.
       Sec. 718. None of the funds made available to the 
     Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire 
     new information technology systems or significant upgrades, 
     as determined by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
     without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the 
     concurrence of the Executive Information Technology 
     Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act may be transferred to 
     the Office of the Chief Information Officer without the prior 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
     of Congress.
       Sec. 719. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or 
     provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 
     funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
     expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from any 
     accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the 
     collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
     Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through 
     a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) 
     eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
     funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity 
     for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates 
     an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or 
     activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions 
     or activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
     unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
     Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such 
     reprogramming of funds.
       (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
     previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
     Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in 
     the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the 
     Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of 
     fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
     available for obligation or expenditure for activities, 
     programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in 
     excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: 
     (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) 
     reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, 
     project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
     as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general 
     savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a 
     change in existing programs, activities, or projects as 
     approved by Congress; unless the Committees on Appropriations 
     of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of 
     such reprogramming of funds.
       (c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures 
     Trading Commission shall notify the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress before implementing 
     a program or activity not carried out during the previous 
     fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded by this 
     Act or specifically funded by any other Act.
       Sec. 720. With the exception of funds needed to administer 
     and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations 
     incurred in prior fiscal years, none of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other 
     Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
     to carry out the provisions of section 401 of Public Law 105-
     185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems 
     (7 U.S.C. 7621).
       Sec. 721. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
     Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to reduce the 
     Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration District 
     Office below the operating and full-time equivalent staffing 
     level of July 31, 1999; or to change the Detroit District 
     Office to a station, residence post or similarly modified 
     office; or to reassign residence posts assigned to the 
     Detroit District Office: Provided, That this section shall 
     not apply to Food and Drug Administration field laboratory 
     facilities or operations currently located in Detroit, 
     Michigan, except that field laboratory personnel shall be 
     assigned to locations in the general vicinity of Detroit, 
     Michigan, pursuant to cooperative agreements between the Food 
     and Drug Administration and other laboratory facilities 
     associated with the State of Michigan.
       Sec. 722. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any 
     other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
     personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as 
     part of the President's Budget submission to the Congress of 
     the United States for programs under the jurisdiction of the 
     Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from 
     the previous year due to user fees proposals that have not 
     been enacted into law prior to the submission of the Budget 
     unless such Budget submission identifies which additional 
     spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
     proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
     of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2005 
     appropriations Act.
       Sec. 723. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
     any other Act may be used to close or relocate a State Rural 
     Development office unless or until cost effectiveness and 
     enhancement of program delivery have been determined.
       Sec. 724. Of any shipments of commodities made pursuant to 
     section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 
     1431(b)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the extent 
     practicable, direct that tonnage equal in value to not more 
     than $25,000,000 shall be made available to foreign countries 
     to assist in mitigating the effects of the Human 
     Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency 
     Syndrome on communities, including the provision of--
       (1) agricultural commodities to--
       (A) individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or 
     Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the communities; and
       (B) households in the communities, particularly individuals 
     caring for orphaned children; and
       (2) agricultural commodities monetized to provide other 
     assistance (including assistance under microcredit and 
     microenterprise programs) to create or restore sustainable 
     livelihoods among individuals in the communities, 
     particularly individuals caring for orphaned children.
       Sec. 725. In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or 
     made available by this Act, $2,981,000 is appropriated for 
     the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland 
     Hunger Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger Center.
       Sec. 726. Notwithstanding section 412 of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 
     1736f), any balances available to carry out title III of such 
     Act as of the date of enactment of this Act, and any 
     recoveries and reimbursements that become available to carry 
     out title III of such Act, may be used to carry out title II 
     of such Act.
       Sec. 727. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by 
     striking ``$26,499,000'' and inserting ``$26,998,000''.
       Sec. 728. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality 
     of the United States Government, except pursuant to a 
     transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act 
     or any other appropriation Act.
       Sec. 729. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
     Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or 
     relocate, or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug 
     Administration Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. 
     Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits of St. 
     Louis, Missouri.
       Sec. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
     the funds made available in this Act for competitive research 
     grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), the Secretary may use up to 20 
     percent of the amount provided to carry out a competitive 
     grants program under the same terms and conditions as those 
     provided in section 401 of the Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7621), 
     including requests for proposals for grants for critical 
     emerging issues described in section 401(c)(1) of that Act 
     for which the Secretary has not issued requests for proposals 
     for grants in fiscal year 2002 or 2003.
       Sec. 731. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide 
     financial and technical assistance through the Watershed and 
     Flood Prevention Operations program to carry out the Upper 
     Tygart Valley Watershed project, West Virginia: Provided, 
     That the Natural Resources Conservation Service is authorized 
     to provide 100 percent of the engineering assistance and 75 
     percent cost share for installation of the water supply 
     component of this project.
       Sec. 732. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
     Agriculture may utilize any unobligated salaries and expenses 
     funds to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel for 
     salaries and expenses of personnel, and for other related 
     expenses, incurred in representing such agencies

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     and offices in the resolution of complaints by employees or 
     applicants for employment, and in cases and other matters 
     pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
     the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Systems 
     Protection Board with the prior approval of the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
       Sec. 733. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
     and expenses of personnel to carry out section 14(h)(1) of 
     the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 
     1012(h)(1)).
       Sec. 734. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act, or any other Act, may be used to pay the 
     salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out subtitle I of 
     the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     2009dd through dd-7).
       Sec. 735. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
     and expenses of personnel to carry out section 6405 of Public 
     Law 107-171 (7 U.S.C. 2655).
       Sec. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide financial 
     and technical assistance through the Watershed and Flood 
     Prevention Operations program for the Kuhn Bayou and Ditch 26 
     Improvement projects in Arkansas, the Matanuska River erosion 
     control project in Alaska, the DuPage County Sawmill Creek 
     Watershed project in Illinois, and the Coal Creek project in 
     Utah, and four flood control structures in Marmaton, Kansas.
       Sec. 737. None of the funds made available in fiscal year 
     2004 or preceding fiscal years for programs authorized under 
     the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 
     (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) in excess of $20,000,000 shall be 
     used to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the 
     release of eligible commodities under section 302(f)(2)(A) of 
     the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f-1): 
     Provided, That any such funds made available to reimburse the 
     Commodity Credit Corporation shall only be used pursuant to 
     section 302(b)(2)(B)(i) of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian 
     Trust Act.
       Sec. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service may provide from 
     appropriated funds financial and technical assistance to the 
     Dry Creek project, Utah.
       Sec. 739. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to 
     permit employees of the United States Department of 
     Agriculture to carry and use firearms for personal protection 
     while conducting field work in remote locations in the 
     performance of their official duties.
       Sec. 740. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel to carry out the provisions of sections 
     7404(a)(1) and 7404(c)(1) of Public Law 107-171.
       Sec. 741. Of the funds made available under section 27(a) 
     of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), the 
     Secretary may use up to $10,000,000 for costs associated with 
     the distribution of commodities.
       Sec. 742. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to enroll in excess of 
     189,144 acres in the calendar year 2004 wetlands reserve 
     program as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3837.
       Sec. 743. (a) Notwithstanding subsections (c) and (e)(2) of 
     section 313A of the Rural Electrification Act (7 U.S.C. 
     940c(c) and (e)(2)) in implementing section 313A of that Act, 
     the Secretary shall, with the consent of the lender, 
     structure the schedule for payment of the annual fee, not to 
     exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of 
     the loan, to ensure that sufficient funds are available to 
     pay the subsidy costs for note guarantees under that section; 
     and
       (b) The Secretary shall publish a proposed rule to carry 
     out section 313A of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
     within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 744. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a ground 
     and surface water conservation program authorized by section 
     2301 of Public Law 107-171, the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002, in excess of $51,000,000.
       Sec. 745. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
     2502 of Public Law 107-171, the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002, in excess of $42,000,000.
       Sec. 746. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
     2503 of Public Law 107-171, the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002, in excess of $112,044,000.
       Sec. 747. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000 to carry 
     out section 6028 of Public Law 107-171, the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002: Provided, That notwithstanding 
     section 383B(g)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2009bb-1(g)(1)), the Federal share 
     of the administrative expenses of the Northern Great Plains 
     Regional Authority for fiscal year 2004 shall be 100 percent.
       Sec. 748. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
     and expenses of personnel to carry out section 6029 of Public 
     Law 107-171, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
     2002: Provided, That this section shall not apply to 
     activities related to the promulgation of regulations or the 
     receipt and review of applications for the Rural Business 
     Investment Program.
       Sec. 749. Access to Broadband Telecommunications Services 
     in Rural Areas. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to expend the 
     $20,000,000 made available by section 601(j)(1)(A) of the 
     Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb(j)(1)(A)) 
     for fiscal year 2004.
       Sec. 750. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out section 
     9006 of Public Law 107-171, the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002.
       Sec. 751. Agencies and offices of the Department of 
     Agriculture may utilize any available discretionary funds to 
     cover the costs of preparing, or contracting for the 
     preparation of, final agency decisions regarding complaints 
     of discrimination in employment or program activities arising 
     within such agencies and offices.
       Sec. 752. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     any fiscal year, in the case of a high cost isolated rural 
     area that is not connected to a road system in Alaska, the 
     maximum level for the single family housing assistance shall 
     be 150 percent of the average income level in the 
     metropolitan areas of the State and 115 percent of all other 
     eligible areas of the State.
       Sec. 753. Any unobligated balances in the Alternative 
     Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund 
     are hereby rescinded.
       Sec. 754. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended, for the Denali Commission to 
     address deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which 
     threaten to contaminate rural drinking water supplies.
       Sec. 755. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary shall consider the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi; 
     the City of Aberdeen, South Dakota; and the City of 
     Starkville, Mississippi as meeting the requirements of a 
     rural area contained in section 520 of the Housing Act of 
     1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490) until receipt of the decennial Census 
     for the year 2010.
       Sec. 756. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary shall consider the City of Berlin, New Hampshire; 
     the City of Guymon, Oklahoma; the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma; 
     and the City of Altus, Oklahoma, to be eligible for loans and 
     grants provided through the Rural Community Advancement 
     Program until receipt of the decennial Census in the year 
     2010.
       Sec. 757. None of the funds made available in this Act or 
     any other Act may be used to study or enter into a contract 
     with a private party to carry out, without specific 
     authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a competitive 
     sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agriculture, including 
     support personnel of the Department of Agriculture, relating 
     to rural development or farm loan programs, animal disease 
     research, or grant review or management activities.
       Sec. 758. Section 501(b)(5)(B) of the Housing Act of 1949 
     (42 U.S.C. 1471(b)(5)(B) is amended by striking ``for fiscal 
     years 2002 and 2003,''.
       Sec. 759. Agricultural Management Assistance. Section 
     524(b)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1542(b)(4)(B)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (i), by striking ``clause (ii)'' and 
     inserting ``clauses (ii) and (iii)''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(iii) Certain uses.--Of the amounts made available to 
     carry out this subsection for each fiscal year, the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation shall use not less than--

       ``(I) $15,000,000 to carry out subparagraphs (A), (B), and 
     (C) of paragraph (2) through the Natural Resources 
     Conservation Service; and
       ``(II) $2,000,000 to provide organic certification cost 
     share assistance through the Agricultural Marketing 
     Service.''.

       Sec. 760. Travel Relating to Commercial Sales of 
     Agricultural and Medical Goods. Section 910(a) of the Trade 
     Sanctions Reform And Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 
     U.S.C. 7209(a)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Authorization of Travel Relating to Commercial Sales 
     of Agricultural and Medical Goods.--The Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-
     related transactions listed in paragraph (c) of section 
     515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, are 
     authorized by general license for travel to, from, or within 
     Cuba for the purpose of conferring, exhibiting, marketing, 
     planning, sales negotiation, delivery, expediting, 
     facilitating, or servicing commercial export sale of 
     agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the provisions of 
     this title.''.
       Sec. 761. Protection of Downed Animals. None of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to pay 
     the salaries or expenses of employees or agents of the 
     Department of Agriculture may be used to approve for human 
     consumption under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
     601 et seq.) any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, 
     or other equines that are unable to stand or walk unassisted 
     at an establishment subject to inspection at the point of 
     examination and inspection, as required by section 3(a) of 
     that Act (21 U.S.C. 603(a)).
       Sec. 762. Prohibition of Energy Market Manipulation. (a) 
     Prohibition.--Part II of the

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     Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 215. PROHIBITION OF MARKET MANIPULATION.

       ``It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or 
     indirectly, to use or employ, in connection with the purchase 
     or sale of electric energy or the purchase or sale of 
     transmission services subject to the jurisdiction of the 
     Commission, any manipulative or deceptive device or 
     contrivance in contravention of such regulations as the 
     Commission may promulgate as appropriate in the public 
     interest or for the protection of electric ratepayers.''.
       (b) Rates Resulting From Market Manipulation.--Section 
     205(a) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824d(a)) is 
     amended by inserting after ``not just and reasonable'' the 
     following: ``or that result from a manipulative or deceptive 
     device or contrivance''.
       Sec. 763. Hereafter, no funds provided in this or any other 
     Act shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture acting 
     through the Foreign Agricultural Service to promote the sale 
     or export of tobacco or tobacco products.
       Sec. 764. In General.--Section 3(o)(4) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 2012(o)(4), is amended by 
     inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, and 
     except that on October 1, 2003, in the case of households 
     residing in Alaska and Hawaii the Secretary may not reduce 
     the cost of such diet in effect on September 30, 2002''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall be effective beginning on September 30, 2003.
       Sec. 765. Modification of Boundaries of Aroostook County 
     and Griggs-Steele Empowerment Zones. (a) Aroostook County 
     Empowerment Zone.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the Aroostook County empowerment zone shall include for 
     the period such empowerment zone remains designated, in 
     addition to the area designated as of the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the remaining area of the county not 
     included in such designation.
       (b) Griggs-Steele Empowerment Zone.--Notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, the Griggs-Steele empowerment zone 
     shall include for the period such empowerment zone remains 
     designated, in addition to the area designated as of the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the remaining area of Griggs 
     County not included in such designation.
       Sec. 766. Cost-Sharing for Animal and Plant Health 
     Emergency Programs. None of the funds made available by this 
     Act may be used to issue a final rule in furtherance of, or 
     otherwise implement, the proposed rule on cost-sharing for 
     animal and plant health emergency programs of the Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service published on July 8, 2003 
     (Docket No. 02-062-1; 68 Fed. Reg. 40541).
       Sec. 767. Section 601(b)(2) of the Rural Electrification 
     Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb(b)(2)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(2) Eligible rural community.--The term `eligible rural 
     community' means any area of the United States that is not 
     contained in an incorporated city or town with a population 
     in excess of 20,000 inhabitants.''.
       Sec. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     all activities under programs of the Rural Development 
     Mission Area within the County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 
     Secretary may designate any portion of the county as a rural 
     area or eligible rural community that the Secretary 
     determines is not urban in character.
       Sec. 769. The first sentence of section 306(g)(1) of the 
     National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``or title V of the Housing Act of 1949''; 
     and
       (2) by inserting after ``1944'' the following: ``, title V 
     of the Housing Act of 1949,''.
       Sec. 770. Notwithstanding the provisions of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (including the 
     associated regulations) governing the Community Facilities 
     Program, the Secretary shall allow all Community Facility 
     Program facility borrowers and grantees to enter into 
     contracts with not-for-profit third parties for services 
     consistent with the requirements of the Program, grant, and/
     or loan: Provided, That the contracts protect the interests 
     of the Government regarding cost, liability, maintenance, and 
     administrative fees.
       Sec. 771. EQIP Payment Limit. None of the funds made 
     available under this Act or any other Act shall be used to 
     pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
     chapter 4 of subtitle D of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) to make payments to an individual, 
     entity, or agricultural operation, directly or indirectly, in 
     excess of an aggregate of $300,000 for all contracts entered 
     into by the individual, entity, or agricultural operation 
     during the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2007.
       Sec. 772. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture may use appropriations available to 
     the Secretary for activities authorized under sections 426-
     426c of title 7, United States Code, under this or any other 
     Act, to enter into cooperative agreements, with a State, 
     political subdivision, or agency thereof, a public or private 
     agency, organization, or any other person, to lease aircraft 
     if the Secretary determines that the objectives of the 
     agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest of the parties to 
     the agreement in carrying out the programs administered by 
     the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Service; 
     and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the 
     accomplishment of these objectives; award of a cooperative 
     agreement authorized by the Secretary may be made for an 
     initial term not to exceed 5 years.
       Sec. 773. Citrus Canker Assistance. Section 211 of the 
     Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 545) is 
     amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``TREE REPLACEMENT 
     AND'' after ``FOR''; and
       (2) in subsection (a), by inserting ``tree replacement 
     and'' after ``Florida for''.
       Sec. 774. Rural Electrification. For fiscal year 2004, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture may use any unobligated carryover 
     funds made available for any program administered by the 
     Rural Utilities Service (not including funds made available 
     under the heading ``Rural Community Advancement Program'' in 
     any Act of appropriation) to carry out section 315 of the 
     Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940e).
       Sec. 775. The Commissioner of the Food and Drug 
     Administration shall provide no less than $250,000, from 
     within funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this 
     Act for the Food and Drug Administration, to process comments 
     submitted in response to Docket No. 95N-0304 published in the 
     Federal Register on March 5, 2003 (68FR 10417): Provided 
     further, That the Commissioner should expedite and complete 
     review of available scientific evidence of ephedra's 
     pharmacology and mechanism of action.
       Sec. 776. Workload Analysis of Farm Service Agency. None of 
     the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay more 
     than \1/2\ of the salary of the Under Secretary for Farm and 
     Foreign Agricultural Services after January 31, 2004, unless 
     and until the Secretary of Agriculture provides to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a workload analysis of employees of the Farm Service 
     Agency for each of fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003 
     (including an analysis of the number of workload items and 
     required man-years, by State).
       Sec. 777. Sun Grant Research Initiative. (a) Short Title.--
     This section may be cited as the ``Sun Grant Research 
     Initiative Act of 2003''.
       (b) Research, Extension, and Educational Programs on 
     Biobased Energy Technologies and Products.--Title IX of the 
     Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101 
     et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 9011. RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ON 
                   BIOBASED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS.

       ``(a) Purposes.--The purposes of the programs established 
     under this section are--
       ``(1) to enhance national energy security through the 
     development, distribution, and implementation of biobased 
     energy technologies;
       ``(2) to promote diversification in, and the environmental 
     sustainability of, agricultural production in the United 
     States through biobased energy and product technologies;
       ``(3) to promote economic diversification in rural areas of 
     the United States through biobased energy and product 
     technologies; and
       ``(4) to enhance the efficiency of bioenergy and biomass 
     research and development programs through improved 
     coordination and collaboration between the Department of 
     Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the land-grant 
     colleges and universities.
       ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Land-grant colleges and universities.--The term 
     `land-grant colleges and universities' means--
       ``(A) 1862 Institutions (as defined in section 2 of the 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
     1998 (7 U.S.C. 7601));
       ``(B) 1890 Institutions (as defined in section 2 of that 
     Act) and West Virginia State College; and
       ``(C) 1994 Institutions (as defined in section 2 of that 
     Act).
       ``(2) Secretary.--The term `Secretary' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       ``(c) Establishment.--To carry out the purposes described 
     in subsection (a), the Secretary shall establish programs 
     under which--
       ``(1) the Secretary shall provide grants to sun grant 
     centers specified in subsection (d); and
       ``(2) the sun grant centers shall use the grants in 
     accordance with this section.
       ``(d) Grants to Centers.--The Secretary shall use amounts 
     made available for a fiscal year under subsection (j) to 
     provide a grants in equal amounts to each of the following 
     sun grant centers:
       ``(1) North-central center.--A north-central sun grant 
     center at South Dakota State University for the region 
     composed of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, 
     Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and 
     Wyoming.
       ``(2) Southeastern center.--A southeastern sun grant center 
     at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for the region 
     composed of--
       ``(A) the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 
     Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and 
     Virginia;
       ``(B) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
       ``(C) the United States Virgin Islands.
       ``(3) South-central center.--A south-central sun grant 
     center at Oklahoma State University for the region composed 
     of the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, 
     Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
       ``(4) Western center.--A western sun grant center at Oregon 
     State University for the region composed of--
       ``(A) the States of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, 
     Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington; and
       ``(B) territories and possessions of the United States 
     (other than the territories referred to in subparagraphs (B) 
     and (C) of paragraph (2)).

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       ``(5) Northeastern center.--A northeastern sun grant center 
     at Cornell University for the region composed of the States 
     of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, 
     Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, 
     Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.
       ``(e) Use of Funds.--
       ``(1) Centers of excellence.--Of the amount of funds that 
     are made available for a fiscal year to a sun grant center 
     under subsection (d), the center shall use not more than 25 
     percent of the amount for administration to support 
     excellence in science, engineering, and economics at the 
     center to promote the purposes described in subsection (a) 
     through the State agricultural experiment station, 
     cooperative extension services, and relevant educational 
     programs of the university.
       ``(2) Grants to land-grant colleges and universities.--
       ``(A) In general.--The sun grant center established for a 
     region shall use the funds that remain available for a fiscal 
     year after expenditures made under paragraph (1) to provide 
     competitive grants to land-grant colleges and universities in 
     the region of the sun grant center to conduct, consistent 
     with the purposes described in subsection (a), 
     multiinstitutional and multistate--
       ``(i) research, extension, and educational programs on 
     technology development; and
       ``(ii) integrated research, extension, and educational 
     programs on technology implementation.
       ``(B) Programs.--Of the amount of funds that are used to 
     provide grants for a fiscal year under subparagraph (A), the 
     center shall use--
       ``(i) not less than 30 percent of the funds to carry out 
     programs described in subparagraph (A)(i); and
       ``(ii) not less than 30 percent of the funds to carry out 
     programs described in subparagraph (A)(ii).
       ``(3) Indirect costs.--A sun grant center may not recover 
     the indirect costs of making grants under paragraph (2) to 
     other land-grant colleges and universities.
       ``(f) Plan.--
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to the availability of funds 
     under subsection (j), in cooperation with other land-grant 
     colleges and universities and private industry in accordance 
     with paragraph (2), the sun grant centers shall jointly 
     develop and submit to the Secretary, for approval, a plan for 
     addressing at the State and regional levels the bioenergy, 
     biomass, and gasification research priorities of the 
     Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy for 
     the making of grants under paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
     subsection (e).
       ``(2) Gasification coordination.--
       ``(A) In general.--In developing the plan under paragraph 
     (1) with respect to gasification research, the sun grant 
     centers identified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 
     (d) shall coordinate with land grant colleges and 
     universities in their respective regions that have ongoing 
     research activities with respect to the research.
       ``(B) Funding.--Funds made available under subsection (d) 
     to the sun grant center identified in subsection (e)(2) shall 
     be available to carry out planning coordination under 
     paragraph (1) of this subsection.
       ``(g) Grants to Other Land-Grant Colleges and 
     Universities.--
       ``(1) Priority for grants.--In making grants under 
     subsection (e)(2), a sun grant center shall give a higher 
     priority to programs that are consistent with the plan 
     approved by the Secretary under subsection (f).
       ``(2) Term of grants.--The term of a grant provided by a 
     sun grant center under subsection (e)(2) shall not exceed 5 
     years.
       ``(h) Grant Information Analysis Center.--The sun grant 
     centers shall maintain a Sun Grant Information Analysis 
     Center at the sun grant center specified in subsection (d)(1) 
     to provide sun grant centers analysis and data management 
     support.
       ``(i) Annual Reports.--Not later than 90 days after the end 
     of a year for which a sun grant center receives a grant under 
     subsection (d), the sun grant center shall submit to the 
     Secretary a report that describes the policies, priorities, 
     and operations of the program carried out by the center 
     during the year, including a description of progress made in 
     facilitating the priorities described in subsection (f).
       ``(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       ``(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     to carry out this section--
       ``(A) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
       ``(B) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
       ``(C) $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 
     2010.
       ``(2) Grant information analysis center.--Of amounts made 
     available under paragraph (1), not more than $4,000,000 for 
     each fiscal year shall be made available to carry out 
     subsection (h).''.
       Sec. 778. Dietary Supplements. The Commissioner of Food and 
     Drugs shall provide not less than $11,400,000 from within 
     funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act 
     for regulation by the Food and Drug Administration of dietary 
     supplements.
       Sec. 779. Sense of Senate on Importation of Cattle With 
     Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. (a) Findings.--The Senate 
     finds that--
       (1) the United States beef industry is the single largest 
     segment of United States agriculture;
       (2) the United States has never allowed the importation of 
     live cattle from a country that has been found to have bovine 
     spongiform encephalopathy (referred to in this section as 
     ``BSE'');
       (3) the importation of live cattle known to have BSE could 
     put the entire United States cattle industry at unnecessary 
     risk;
       (4) food safety is a top priority for the people of the 
     United States; and
       (5) the importation of beef and beef products from a 
     country known to have BSE could undermine consumer confidence 
     in the integrity of the food supply and present a possible 
     danger to human health.
       (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that 
     the Secretary of Agriculture--
       (1) should not allow the importation of live cattle from 
     any country known to have BSE unless the country complies 
     with the animal health guidelines established by the World 
     Organization for Animal Health; and
       (2) should abide by international standards for the 
     continued health and safety of the United States livestock 
     industry.
       Sec. 780. Reduction in Travel Amounts. (a) In General.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, each amount 
     provided by this Act for travel expenses is reduced by the 
     pro rata percentage required to reduce the total amount 
     provided by this Act for such expenses by $6,000,000.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     a listing of the amounts by account of the reductions made 
     pursuant to subsection (a).
       Sec. 781. Limitation on Allocation of Purchase Prices for 
     Butter and Nonfat Dry Milk. None of the funds made available 
     by this Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of 
     employees of the Department of Agriculture to allocate the 
     rate of price support between the purchase prices for nonfat 
     dry milk and butter in a manner does not support the price of 
     milk in accordance with section 1501(b) of the Farm Security 
     and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7981(b)).
       Sec. 782. Sense of Senate Regarding Country of Origin 
     Labeling Requirements. It is the sense of the Senate that the 
     conferees on the part of the Senate on this bill shall insist 
     that no limits on the use of funds to enforce country of 
     origin labeling requirements for meat or meat products be 
     included in the conference report accompanying the bill.
       Sec. 783. Emergency Watershed Protection Program. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture is authorized hereafter to make funding and other 
     assistance available through the emergency watershed 
     protection program under section 403 of the Agricultural 
     Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to repair and prevent 
     damage to non-Federal land in watersheds that have been 
     impaired by fires initiated by the Federal Government and to 
     waive cost sharing requirements for the funding and 
     assistance.
       Sec. 784. The Secretary may waive the requirements 
     regarding small and emerging rural business as authorized 
     under the Rural Business Enterprise Grant program for the 
     purpose of a lease for the Oakridge Oregon Industrial Park.
       Sec. 785. Water and Waste Disposal Grant to the Alaska 
     Department of Community and Economic Development. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
       (1) the Alaska Department of Community and Economic 
     Development may be eligible to receive a water and waste 
     disposal grant under section 306(a) of the Consolidated Farm 
     and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) in an amount 
     that is up to 75 percent of the total cost of providing water 
     and sewer service to the proposed hospital in the Matanuska-
     Susitna Borough, Alaska; and
       (2) the Alaska Department of Community and Economic 
     Development may be allowed to pass the grant funds through to 
     the local government entity that will provide water and sewer 
     service to the hospital.
       Sec. 786. Conservation Reserve Program. Land shall be 
     considered eligible land under section 1231(b) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(b)) for purposes of 
     enrollment into the conservation reserve program established 
     under subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.) if the 
     land--
       (1) is planted to hardwood trees as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act; and
       (2) was enrolled in the conservation reserve program under 
     a contract that expired before the date of enactment of this 
     Act.
       Sec. 787. Prohibition of Use of Funds To Purchase Chicken 
     Treated With Fluoroquinolone. After December 31, 2003, none 
     of the funds made available by this Act may be used to 
     purchase chickens or the products of chickens for use in any 
     program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 
     et seq.) or the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), unless the supplier provides 
     certification that the supplier does not feed or administer 
     fluoroquinolone to chickens produced by the supplier.
       Sec. 788. Renewable Energy System Loan Guarantees. Title IX 
     of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
     U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) is amended by adding the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 9011. RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM LOAN GUARANTEES.

       ``(a) Definition of Subsidy Costs.--In this section, the 
     term `subsidy costs' has the meaning given the term `cost' in 
     section 502 of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 
     U.S.C. 661a).

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       ``(b) Projects.--Section 9006(c)(1) shall not apply to a 
     loan guarantee made under this subsection to carry out a 
     project if--
       ``(1) the loan will be used--
       ``(A) to purchase a renewable energy system that has, as 
     one of its principal purposes, the commercial production of 
     an agricultural commodity; and
       ``(B) to promote a solution to an environmental problem in 
     a rural area of the State in which the project will be 
     carried out;
       ``(2) the lender of the loan exercises due diligence with 
     respect to the borrower of the loan;
       ``(3) the borrower of the loan pays in full, before the 
     guarantee is issued, a guarantee fee in the amount of the 
     estimated subsidy cost of the guarantee, as determined by the 
     Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
       ``(4) except as provided in paragraph (5), the principal 
     amount of the loan is not more than $25,000,000;
       ``(5) the principal amount of the loan is more than 
     $25,000,000, but is not more than $75,000,000, if the 
     Secretary--
       ``(A) approves the loan application; and
       ``(B) does not delegate the authority described in 
     subparagraph (A);
       ``(6) the project requires no Federal or State financial 
     assistance, other than the loan guarantee provided under this 
     subsection; and
       ``(7) the project complies with all necessary permits, 
     licenses, and approvals required under the laws of the State.
       ``(c) Cost Sharing.--
       ``(1) In general.--The amount of a loan guarantee under 
     this section for a project described in subsection (b) shall 
     not exceed 80 percent of the total project cost.
       ``(2) Subordination.--Any financing for the non-Federal 
     share of the total project cost shall be subordinated to the 
     federally guaranteed portion of the total project cost.
       ``(d) Loan Guarantee Limits.--The loan guarantee 
     limitations applicable to the business and industry guarantee 
     loan program authorized under section 310B of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932) 
     shall apply to loan guarantees made under this section.
       ``(e) Maximum Amount.--
       ``(1) Individual loans.--The amount of principal for a loan 
     under this section for a project described in subsection (b) 
     shall not exceed $75,000,000.
       ``(2) All loans.--The total outstanding amount of principal 
     for loans under this section for all projects described in 
     subsection (b) shall not exceed $500,000,000.
       ``(f) Proposed Rule.--The Secretary shall publish a 
     proposed rule to carry out this section within 120 days of 
     enactment of this Act.''.
       Sec. 789. Water and Waste Disposal Grant to the City of 
     Postville, Iowa. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     the city of Postville, Iowa, shall be eligible to receive a 
     water and waste disposal grant under section 306(a) of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1926(a)) in an amount that is equal to not more than 75 
     percent of the total cost of providing water and sewer 
     service in the city.
       Sec. 790. Texas Rice Safeguard Initiative. (a) In 
     General.--In order to provide a safeguard against the further 
     decline of the rice industry and wildlife habitat in Texas, 
     and to provide information to the Congress in anticipation of 
     and preparation for the 2007 farm bill, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall conduct the initiative required under this 
     section.
       (b) Administrative Improvements.--As an integral part of 
     the safeguard initiative the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     review the administration and enhance the enforcement of 
     section 1105(a)(1)(E) of Public Law 107-171 as it relates to 
     and is applied to the control of noxious weeds and the proper 
     application and implementation of the conserving use 
     requirements on rice base acreage in Texas.
       (c) Reports to Congress.--The Secretary shall review and 
     evaluate the costs, benefits and effects of the safeguard 
     initiative on rice producers, including tenant rice 
     producers, the rice milling and processing industry, wildlife 
     habitat, and the economies of rice farming areas in Texas, 
     detailed by each of these affected interests and by the 
     program variables involved in the safeguard initiative under 
     subsection (b), including whether or not producers on a farm 
     have qualified plantings. The Secretary shall provide to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives an annual report detailing the progress and 
     findings of the initiative not later than February 1 of each 
     of the years 2005 through 2007.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004''.

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